Design & Emotion Society The website of the Design & Emotion society, whose goal is to: “raise issues and facilitate dialogue among practitioners, researchers and industry in order to inetgrate salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession.”

Engage A website presented by the Design & Emotion Society that offers tools and methods for integrating emotion into the design process.

Design & Emotion Marco van Hout presents opinions and interviews on design & emotion. His blog features interviews with leading design professionals from some of the most respected brands.

ID StudioLab The ID StudioLab in Delft, Netherlands incorporates the study of design for emotion into their industrial design program, and is the ‘home’ of Paul Hekkert and Pieter Desmet, whose PhD, “Designing Emotions” answers many of the basic, relevant questions around design and emotion. Pieter also created “PrEmo“, a tool for measuring emotional responses based on facial expressions and is quite a nice guy.

Humaine: Emotion Research.net “HUMAINE aims to lay the foundations for European development of systems that can register, model and/or influence human emotional and emotion-related states and processes – ’emotion-oriented systems’.” The Humaine site provides news, events, research positions, a toolbox of methods and links to practitioners and researchers in the field.

Japan Society for Kansei Engineering The Japan Society for Kansei Engineering promotes KANSEI engineering as “trans-disciplinary engineering that extends over the humanities, social science and natural science”. Kansei engineering was responsible for the design of the original Mazda Miata.